sendouk صندوق
Algerian Darja · noun
“sendouk” (صندوق) is a noun in Algerian Darja meaning crate, chest, trunk.
Meanings
- crate, chest, trunk
- car trunk
- cash box, fund
Usage
Sendouk refers to a rigid container: a wooden crate, a trunk, a clothes chest or a storage box. One says sendouk tâ3 tomobil for the trunk of a car. The word is also used for a cash box or a fund, for example sendouk ed-da3m (support fund), a usage close to Standard Arabic. The common plural is snadek. For a small cardboard box, many speakers say kartouna or boîte, borrowed from French, instead. Sendouk suggests something sturdier.
Example
حط الحوايج في الصندوق تاع الطوموبيل
het lehwayej fe sendouk ta3 tomobil
“Put the things in the trunk of the car.”
How to write it in Latin letters
In Arabizi, Darija written in Latin letters, you will find “sendouk” but also “sandouk”, “sendou9”, “sondok” and “sanduk”. No spelling is official: people write the sounds as they hear them.
Digits stand in for Arabic letters that have no Latin equivalent: 9 is qaf (ق), a k pronounced at the back of the throat.
Type “sendouk” on the Arabic keyboard
In Moroccan Darija
Spelt the same way in Arabic, the word also exists in Moroccan Darija, where it means “box, crate”; “chest, trunk”: sndo9 in Moroccan.
In Tunisian Derja
Spelt the same way in Arabic, the word also exists in Tunisian Derja, where it means “box, crate”; “chest, trunk”: sondou9 in Tunisian.